Effect of early skin-to-skin contact following normal delivery on incidence of hypothermia in neonates more than 1800 g: randomized control trial

Abstract

Newborns in the SSC group achieved rapid thermal control as compared with the control group. Early SSC for 24 h after birth decreases incidence of hypothermia for initial 48 h of life. Early SSC needs to be aggressively promoted in term and late-preterm newborns to reduce incidence of hypothermia.

Safe Sleep and Skin-to-Skin Care in the Neonatal Period for Healthy Term Newborns

“…SSC immediately after birth stabilizes the newborn body temperature and can help prevent hypothermia. 10,11 SSC also helps stabilize blood glucose concentrations, decreases crying, and provides cardiorespiratory stability, especially in late preterm newborns. 12 SSC has been shown in numerous studies as a method to decrease pain in newborns being held by mothers 13 -16 and fathers.…”

Part 13: Neonatal Resuscitation

“…Simple interventions to prevent hypothermia during transition (birth until 1 to 2 hours of life) reduce mortality. During transition, the use of plastic wraps [90][91][92] and the use of skin-to-skin contact [93][94][95][96][97][98][99][100] reduce hypothermia. In resource-limited settings, to maintain body temperature or prevent hypothermia during transition (birth until 1 to 2 hours of life) in well newborn infants, it may be reasonable to put them in a clean food-grade plastic bag up to the level of the neck and swaddle them after drying (Class IIb, LOE C-LD).…”

Part 7: Neonatal Resuscitation

“…During transition (birth to 1-2 hours after delivery), we identified very-low-quality evidence (downgraded for risk of bias, indirectness, and imprecision) from 7 randomized clinical trials [134][135][136][137][138][139][140] enrolling 600 newborns of greater than 30 weeks of gestation showing a reduction in the number of babies with hypothermia when nursed with skin-to-skin contact after delivery 134,136,137,140 or similar body temperatures 135,138,139 when compared with cot or crib and swaddling with or without initial use of radiant warmer.…”